Ideas for the flipped classroom.

Please understand that this is an ever evolving list of ideas that could be transposed into a video. Some ideas may turn out better on video than others, but the hope is that you, as an instructor, will retain CHOICES about how to present materials (one year could be by video - the next not so much!) and that you will retain the actual videos, so you may not have to repeat yourself they tpical ten thousand times a year on certain issues!

Videos for the Parents

  • "About me" (the teacher)
  • Overview of curriculum
  • Individual unit objectives
  • How your website works
  • How policies (lab reports, rewrites, late work) work
  • How to support their student (homework time and space, reading time, helping with homework)
  • Developmental milestones of students

Videos for Sticking Points in Class

  • How to check grades on IC
  • Class expectations about policies

Videos for Content Areas

  • Finite pieces of content
    • Math formulas
    • Balancing equations (chemistry, math)
    • Cycles in biology
    • Formulas in physics
    • Systems in anatomy
    • Conjugations in world languages
    • Culture pieces in world languages
    • Literary terms in language arts
    • Rhetorical triangle in LA
    • Political spectrum for government
    • Terms for economics / sociology / psychology
  • Cross-content skills
    • Reading in the content areas
      • Transitions that matter
      • Structures that matter
      • Organization that matters
      • Deducing vocabulary in context
    • Writing in the content areas
      • Key vocabulary inclusion
      • Structure and organization expectations
      • Voice expectations
    • Presentation skills
      • What does a good presentation look like?
      • Body language / eye contact
      • Reading vs presenting